"Haha! That sound like the best offer for me. Guess I just need to wait 7 years before I can become normal again." He said in excitement as he shook my hands. However, I could see a slight concern in him seeing my overconfident smile.

"Also just be quiet about me to anyone should you get captured ok? I don't want to reveal myself to the stage so soon." I told him as I got back to working on making some tools I might need soon, while Bruce had an annoyed face.

"I need to be behind the curtains to save you Mr Genius!" I rolled my eyes at him feeling his glare.

I was slowly earning his friendship. The power of friendship was truly amazing in dire moments especially with someone like the hulk. If I ever got in danger(which I doubt I will), I am sure the hulk will go on a rampage to save me.

Use and discard wasn't my policy with people. Use, re-use, repurpose and then recycle. Who said cold people like me didn't care about the environment?

"Hey, how did you find me by the way?" Bruce asked.

"Can't reveal all my cards can I?" I smiled at him as the tracker in him probably dissolved into his bloodstream harmlessly by now.

Another strange thing I had noticed during this time was I hadn't exercised at all since I had arrived in America. But not a shred of my strength was lost.

Usually not exercising for weeks can cause a deterioration in strength even by a bit. Yet I was always able to bench press exactly 500 kilograms without any sort of warm-ups once I began exercising a few days ago which was strange.

From this, I deduced another aspect of my gifts and through it another. I was immune to degradation of physical strength and my body was always in its top condition as long as I ate properly.

Due to this, I tested my language skills which I hadn't practiced after passing year 9 in high school. Once again to my shock, I found I could fluently speak French, Spanish, German and Latin. It had been close to 7 years since I practiced those languages and there was no degradation of my language skills.

Usually, if someone had stopped practising a language for a long time they will struggle for a while before being able to pick it up. However, for me, there was no problem what so ever in that aspect.

This meant I was immune to degradation to any skills or knowledge I learnt as well.

It was as if once my body acquired a state of level then that new state became my base level. I believe this ability came as a result of my 3rd gift- Same potato.

Same potato stopped anyone from taking any of my power through genes, magic or whatever possibility there was. But what if like my other 2 gifts this ability had more to its eyes than what seemed?

What if my 3rd ability could not only stop my powers from being taken away not only from science or magic but through the passage of time as well?

If that was the case time didn't affect my strength or skill.

Just what had I become through 3 simple but weirdly named gifts?

1 ability does everything for me and executes all my orders to near perfection using all my knowledge and skills including the orders for my mind.

1 ability stops my physical appearance from changing and allows me to train to the point of a certain bald hero if I had enough time and materials to train. Sure I could train myself to one shot everything to death. But simply reaching the level to bench press 500kg took me nearly 20 odd years of my life. I had no idea how long it will take me to train to reach that point.

It was better to gain strength through other means than spending possibly millions of years to one punch gods to oblivion.

1 ability stops anyone from taking my powers and stopped time from affecting it.

1 week later I had found a way to remove Extremis from someone. I spent another week making some pretty nifty modifications to it.

I smiled at this and soon started to do some testing on a rat.

"What the hell are you doing?" Bruce asked as he saw a rat spewing fire while moving very quickly towards the reinforced cage after having a robot arm take its blood.

I ignored him and quickly released the gas that will reverse the effects of the Extremis, while Bruce quickly got a fire extinguisher ready.

These days Bruce spent his time trying to understand and cure his condition on his own. But it was very difficult for him.

The rat soon ran toward the reinforced glass bashing it, but nothing happened. It tried breathing fire but again nothing happened.

I smiled as I took the rat out and proceeded to run some tests on it.

"Ok, seriously what the heck was that? Why was that rat breathing fire like a dragon?

Or did you just find a dragon that looks like a rat?" I looked at him strangely.

"I know some Chinese myth to know even horses can be dragons," Bruce stated while still holding the fire extinguisher in his hand.

"That my dear friend is called Extremis.

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It is an advanced form of genetic manipulation developed by Dr. Maya Hansen which she intended to use for curing all forms of disabilities along with limb dismemberment together with Aldrich Killian.

Of course, they are developing it secretly and still haven't managed to stabilize it as their experiment subject literally explodes once injected with Extremis." I told him.

This earned a massive jaw opening from Bruce.

"I managed to hack into their server and get all the data they had on Extremis and perfected it to the point I can cure people or beings of it should they ever go mad with not seeing any sort of development in their project and want to engage in human test subjects," I told him which earned another round of slack jaw.

"How...? But you…?" He pointed at me then at the rat then at the cage.

"Don't underestimate me my friend just because I don't have a doctorate." I smiled towards him as I collected the data and saw there was no trace of Extremis left on the rat.

Why was I confident Bruce wouldn't rat me out or anything? At this point, this guy considers me more as a friend due to me being the only human interaction he has. Not to mention he knew I was the only person capable of curing him so he wouldn't want to risk his future when I haven't even done anything unethical in front of his eyes.

I placed the rat back in its cage and gave it some extra potatoes as treat.

I destroyed all the blood samples appropriately before getting ready to inject myself with Extremis.

I had made huge changes to the Extremis after stabilizing it.

The main one was turning the ability into an active sort of ability instead of a passive one. This was done in order to stabilize the Extremis so when the Extremis didn't receive enough energy it won't consume my body to replace the lost energy and go boom.

'Calm mind' I ordered my ability as I took the vial of the perfected Extremis and prepared to inject it in me.

"Wait! What are you doing? Are you mad?" Bruce shouted as he ran to stop me.

But he was too late as I injected it into my blood system before he could arrive.

Contrary to what I thought there was no pain other than feeling quite hot for a moment before that feeling faded.

I felt I could control this rising temperature if I wanted to.

"Oi, Dave are you ok?" Bruce asked me as he slapped my face.

I just stared at him. "Seriously stop with that. I told you I perfected it."

"But you haven't done any human trials. What made you so confident to use it on yourself without doing any sort of human trials?" Bruce asked in anger.

"The same confidence that is able to 'cure' your condition Bruce. Besides, I needed to do this in case one of these days you somehow lost control and attacked me. I don't want to die leaving you without any hope after all." I told him with a smile as I got up to get my temperature taken.

*Beep* '37 Degree Celsius' Perfect.

I soon felt for the familiar feeling to control my temperature and started raising my temperature. As I began controlling my temperature I felt my brain's processing ability increasing by a huge amount.

'39, 50, 80, 115, 130 degree Celsius'

"Shit, stop that Dave," Bruce shouted as he quickly moved back feeling the heat.

By the time I got to 130 degrees I quickly stopped as my clothes started smoking with burned holes along with that, I felt very tired and immediately felt the need to eat something. The only problem with Extremis was that I needed an insane amount of calorie to sustain using its abilities.

One of the main reasons Extremis became unstable was due to the lack of energy source especially when it was active 24/7.

This was another reason why I changed it to an active sort of ability that only activated when I required it. This meant it didn't make me consume so much energy to produce the heat of insane levels or keep up with my insane physical condition at this point.

Obviously, I made sure to make the ability to go full active should my body's vital or brain activity stopped, in case someone ever managed to shoot a bullet in my head or chop my head off before I could react.

However, the only problem was even after raising both my internal and external body temperature to 130 degrees my body didn't flush red or anything. Instead, it just stayed normal which was strange… or due to my 2nd ability 'Comfy potato'.

I quickly went up to get something to eat. Unfortunately, there were only 3 slices of pizza from last night.

I quickly called up the local pizza. "Hey, I need 4 boxes of any x-large pizza as soon as possible. If you manage to bring it within 20 minutes, I will pay double." I told them and gave them my address.

"Are you alright Dave?" Bruce asked with worry seeing my shivering hands and body.

"Yeah just used more energy than required and my body is running out of energy," I told him which worried him.

The pizza quickly arrived within 20 minutes and as promised I paid them double.

I quickly started gorging on the food and felt my insane metabolizing digesting the food very quickly.

Halfway through I ordered 20 more boxes while Bruce watched me eat from the side.

After the 5th box, I felt satisfied and I collected the pizza boxes to the side.

"Great now what about all the extra pizza you ordered?" Bruce asked me in annoyance as he took a slice from the box to eat as well.

"Well, I am going to do some more testing," I said as I went back to the lab to test my abilities.

The energy I stored for Extremis was stored separately in my body which will always be there until I began using Extremis. It was almost like I had a separate fuel tank in my body just for Extremis.

One of the major rework on Extremis I had done was to improve my physical strength and mental capabilities in order to keep up with my new speed etc. This was done after I increased the power and speed of healing and regeneration capabilities.

My base strength, speed, endurance, and almost everything multiplied by a factor of 10 when I used Extremis.

Now a factor of 10 won't seem a lot to a normal person who can only lift 100 Kg at best. But I was a god darn superhuman at this point that could lift 500Kg, with a superhuman level of endurance, and could easily rival the speed of Usain Bolt.

Now imagine what happens when a person at peak human physical capabilities had their strength multiplied by a factor of 10 happens in all areas of their body and mind.

But the problem was when I used the enhancement provided by Extremis my calorie consumption increased.

With a full stomach, I could use Extremis for 10 minutes with all its strength, including regeneration and being a mini Surtur.

At this point, I would become an unkillable flaming cockroach that had the strength of 5 tons and speed just above 1/3 of the speed of sound at that point. Even chopping off my head at that point in time will become pointless with my insane regeneration and healing.

The reason I had very quickly run out of energy earlier was that my energy capacity had massively increased and I was barely full while trying to raise my body temperature.

However, if I were to partially use the strength and abilities(Like only fighting with full speed but not strength or healing factor), I could conserve energy and keep going for a maximum of 1 hour with Extremis.

I smiled at this. Extremis was almost like an active ability of sorts from games.

Sure I could have developed an Extremis to become an almost passive ability that was active 24/7 like the Extremis shown in Iron man 3 movie. But that came at the cost of reducing the capabilities of Extremis severely which I didn't like.

I wanted all the strength that I could get. I mean if 10 minutes of mini Surtur couldn't help me against whatever threat I was facing then the 24/7 active weak version of Extremis could never hope to help me as well.

That was why I was slowly brainwashing Banner to think that he is my friend. When Extremis didn't work out I am pretty sure a green raging titan would definitely work out unless it is Thanos.